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1995年，东北吉春市，两名戴着麻布头套的悍匪连杀数人劫走巨款，现场不留活口，手法毒辣到让全城胆寒。警察局长命令刑侦队长张震调查此案。早已隐退“江湖”多年的赵红兵因战友被杀，决定联合刑侦队长张震为牺牲的战友讨回这笔血债。

　　来自21世纪的项少龙（古天乐 饰）曾意外穿越，并助秦王（林峯 饰）一统天下，这段跨越时空的宿命纠缠将两人紧紧捆绑，两人也成为亦师亦友的情感羁绊。然而，在项少龙归隐田园多年后，未知穿越者却骤然降临，大国基业陷入倾覆危机，秦王不得不求助于早已不问世事的项少龙。面对足以颠覆历史的强敌，他们能否放下芥蒂联手抗敌？那段掺杂着师徒之恩、君臣之畏与知遇之情的情感，又将成为保护彼此的铠甲，还是刺向对方的利刃？                        

　　一场车祸夺去了父母的性命，年幼的奥斯卡和妹妹琳达发誓永不分开。成年后，奥斯卡（Nathaniel Brown 饰）漂泊来至东京，为了实现童年的誓言，他以兜售毒品赚取钱财，终于为琳达（Paz de la Huerta 饰）挣得了飞来东京的机票。兄妹相遇，却终是随波逐流的个体。在这个繁花乱坠迷人眼的大都会，奥斯卡继续进行毒品交易，而琳达则在一家夜总会大跳艳舞。在一次交易时，奥斯卡遭到警察围捕，混乱中更被枪击身亡。他的意识渐渐脱离肉体，穿梭在东京的大街小巷，关注跟随每一个在他生命中留下痕迹的人，等待着下一场不知何时才会开始的轮回……　　本片荣获2009年Sitges – Catalonian国际电影节最佳摄影奖和评委会特别奖。

　　Set in an underground dungeon inhabited by bundled, ragged human beings, after the nuclear holocaust. The story follows the wanderings of a hero through the situations of survival. People wait for the Ark to arrive and rescue them while their habitat falls apart.　　Delving deep into the dusty and long abandonded vaults of b-cinema in search of lost gems always leaves me with a bittersweet taste. On one hand the discovery of unexpected gems where no one would think them possible is a rewarding experience. On the other hand though it makes one wonder how many of these remarkable low-budget oddities, personal love affairs of directors never quite famous and now all but forgotten, have almost forever slipped from memory?　　n any case what we have here is a little post-apocalyptic gem from Poland that is really better than it has any right to. The dystopian near future of O-BI, O-BA finds a group of survivors of the nuclear war that ravaged the Earth inhabiting an underworld concrete bunker and biding their time as they wait for the mysterious Ark, an air ship of some kind that will come and save them. The Ark proves to be an elaborate hoax, carefully designed to give hope to the malnourished and desperate denizens of the bunker, while in the meantime the dome that separates their miserable existence from the nuclear winter outside is slowly caving in.　　What first striked me about the movie is the design of the bunker and the depiction of the survivors. The survivors are gaunt, filthy and terrible-looking penitents, dressed in rags and aimlessly wandering the neon-lit halls of the bunker like automatons. The bunker is a rundown, seedy place, with bright neon lights peering from all sides like the eyes of malignant beasts.　　On one hand it is a slightly 80's depiction of the dystopian future but the movie never stoops down to MAD MAX cheese. Instead it combines biting political satire with the bleak outlook of a world with no future, black comedy with barbs on apathy, religion and power. The survivors, for example, are fed some kind of flour dropping from a tube that hovers in the air - later on we discover the food supervisor uses books and the Bible itself as filler for this meagre meal. There are many such short symbolic touches, perhaps not life-changing or faith-restoring, yet playful, clever and inspired.　　One thing is for sure; O-BI, O-BA is not your run-of-the-mill sci-fi schlock. It overcomes its modest budget with creativity and has genuine artistic aspirations both from a writing and directing perspective. My opinion is that it should have been filmed in black and white instead of colour though. The director uses atmospheric light and shadow to great effect and it would have registered even better in stark black and white. The blue-green neon on the other hand outstays its welcome after a while. Just a minor gripe in an otherwise solid b-movie with its heart set in all the right places.　　Imagine a less bleak THE ROAD (Cormac McCarthy) being injected with the satire and humour of DR.STRANGELOVE and you're getting there. See it if you can find it.